We weren’t moving very quickly this morning but did manage to gather our things and get out of the room right on time for checkout. Before that though we were sitting in bed planning our day when the owner unlocked our door and surprised us. She felt terrible and apologized profusely for the mistake. Not a huge deal, just a little weird.
We headed back over to Cheryl’s for breakfast with all of our gear. Had another delicious breakfast and then headed out to find some shade by the river while we waited for our afternoon bus. There were a lot of families having little gatherings by the river with floats and rafts. It looked like a lot of fun. We had one beer leftover that we weren’t going to drink so I took it over to one group who gladly accepted the donation.
After a while I walked over to the food place across the way and bought a BLT and a Hawaiian ice. It took forever to get my order and while I was waiting some creepy dude walked over and asked if they were hiring…how would I know, I don’t work here, please leave me alone. Finally the food was ready and I took the Hawaiian ice over to Jake to quickly eat before we headed over to the bus stop.
We waited for a really long time and then finally I called the transit dispatcher to ask where our bus was. He told me that it seemed that our request had gotten deleted but he was going to make it right. I was super annoyed because we had to make a connection to get to the pass and we definitely were past that time. Thankfully a bus showed up and the driver had a plan. We made it to a different connection point and the other bus came on time. The driver made a snide remark about us not being prepared or something so I let him know that it was Kern Transit that messed up and not us. I was not in the mood.
Finally we were at the pass and could start hiking. The temperature wasn’t cool but it at least wasn’t 104 like earlier in the day. We hiked for a bit and decided to stop for dinner at a spot where some other hikers had set up for the night. We chatted for a bit and decided to keep going. Hiking until midnight past a lot of other sleeping hikers we made it to our spot. There was a curious mouse when we were setting up and we both hoped it wouldn’t be a problem overnight.
PCT Hike 